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| An electoral format the presents the names of all the candidates for any given office on the same ballot. |
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| The presidential electors from each state who meet in their respective state capitals after the popular election to cast ballots for president and vice president. |
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| The apportionment of voters in dsitricts in such a way as to give unfair advantage to one political party. |
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| A type of electoral system in which victory goes to the individual who gets the most votes in an election, but not necessarily a majority of the votes cast. |
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| A type of electoral system in which, to win a seat in a representative body, a candidate must receive a majority (50% +1) of all the votes cast in the relevant district. |
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| Proportional Representation (PR) |
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| A multiple-member-district system that allows each political party representation in proportion to its percentage of the vote. |
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| Law of politics, formalized by Maurice Duverger, stating that plurality-rule electoral systems will tend to have two political parties. |
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| A measure propossed or passed by a legislature that is referred to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. |
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| A process by which citizens may petition to place a policy proposal on the ballot for public vote. |
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| The removal of a public official by popular vote. |
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| An individual's propensity to select candidates or parties based on the extent to which the individual agrees with one candidate more than others on specific issues. |
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| Voting based on the imagined future performance of a candidate. |
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| Voting based on the past performance of a candidate. |
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| An issue for which a range of possible options or policies can be ordered, say, from liberal to conservative or from most exoensive to least expensive. |
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| A proposition predicting that when policy options can be arrayed along a single dimension, majority rule will pick the policy most preferred by the voter whose ideal policy is to the left of half of the voters and to the right of exactly half the voters. |
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| An issue or aspect of a choice for which all voters prefer a higher value, in contrast to a spatial issue. |
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| Political Action Committee (PAC) |
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| A private group that raises and distributes funds for use in election campaigns. |
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